Posted on 03/25/2026 12:03:03 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
CNN, in a laughable attempt to boost its ratings, has attempted to dress up a couple of its broadcasts in podcast trappings -- based on the misguided notion that viewers will be attracted to the new form rather than the losing substance of what journalists such as Jake Tapper and Anderson Cooper are saying. As an inevitable result, such a desperate move has been the object of widespread mockery. What is interesting is this mockery is not only coming from the right but even from left leaning media such as the New Yorker.
Jay Caspian Kang who is himself a podcaster with the Time to Say Goodbye podcast turned his professional eye on the CNN effort via the New Yorker on Tuesday with "CNN’s 'Podcast Look' and the Slow Death of Cable News." Despite any political sympathy that Kang might feel for CNN, his professional podcaster side couldn't help but laugh at what that desperate network is doing:
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Do you like Podcasts, Peejay?
i’m on pins and needles to see whether CNN++ turns out any better than CNN+ ... and if THAT doesn’t work, then i suppose they could always try CNN+++ next ...
Mark Dice covered this in a recent YouTube video. Anderson Pooper looked like CNN was trying to revive the Larry King Live show.
They’re clueless. Very strange. But I did get a good laugh at Tapper.
or CNNGBT+
“But I did get a good laugh at Tapper.”
His purpose of being on the show is not to say anything productive. He is there so they don’t have to rent the dancing balloons or the blow up gorilla (Air Dancers).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scw-hcywGyo
wy69
Thrift Shop News Network.
Is that Tapper’s personal bong collection?
His desk should festooned with polished turds because that’s all that CNN offers.
I will be double plus good!
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